Cephalofacial Study to Determine Gender and Ethnicity using Facial Index among the Muslims and Baniyas of Jhansi District

The present study was done on the cephalo-facial parameters among the males and females of Muslims and Baniyas of Jhansi district signifies the ethnicity among the two different communities of the population. 400 subjects were considered aged between 18-45 years which ethnically from Jhansi and their great grandfathers also.The measurements were taking by using sliding caliper and was analysed in statistical software SPSS (Statistical Packages of Social Sciences). The Facial Index of the two communities was calculated using the Morphological Facial Height and Width of Face. Therefore it was seen that the Facial Index of Muslim males and females was Euryprosopic (82.60%) and Leptoprosopic (87.17%) respectively that means that the males of Muslim community were having broad face type whereas Muslim females were having long face type. On the other hand the Baniya community males and females were Leptoprosopic (90.97%) and Mesoprosopic (81.60%) respectively that means the males were having long face and the females were having round face. Thus the two communities gender is distinguishable on the basis of their facial phenotype. The significant correlation was seen between the Muslim males and females Morphological Facial Length, Physiognomic Facial Length and Width of Face at 0.01 level and Baniya males and females Physiognomic Facial Length, Morphological Facial Length and Width of face also showed significant correlation at 0.05 level. Hence the study showed significant correlation at 0.01 and 0.05 level. The study concluded that our data could act as a reference for the Muslim and Baniya community of Jhansi District.